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So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
I think the 'Jaws' shark and the 'Shark Night' shark would fall in love and make sweet babies. -- Chris Carmack
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil. -- Graham Hawkes
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. -- George Lucas
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. -- Peter Benchley
Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.' -- Adam Green
Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that. -- Katharine Isabelle
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film. -- Ashley Scott
Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country. -- Rick Yune
I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.' -- David Duchovny
I'm a fan of the old 'Creature Features' like 'Critters,' and 'Gremlins' and 'Tremors.' 'Jaws' is classic. It's funny that I still like those films because I remember my mom would tease me about getting a pet Critter to keep under my bed. -- Brooke Nevin
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway. -- Peter Benchley
I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt. -- Simon Cowell
I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws. -- Michael Fassbender
I've seen Jaws [movie], like, 800 times. And I love it. -- Rob Huebel
I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'. -- Julianna Margulies
Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars -- Freddie Mercury
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. -- Sam Mendes
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life. -- Lorraine Gary
I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished. -- Paul F. Tompkins
Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music. -- Judd Nelson
I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be. -- Steven Spielberg
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. -- Damien Hirst
We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl. -- Tony Kornheiser
I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific. -- Michael Caine
My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws. -- Paul F. Tompkins
I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'. -- Richard Roeper
I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool -- Mindy Kaling
I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director. -- Eli Roth
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.' -- Alexander Payne
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws. -- David Duchovny
The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque. -- Steven Spielberg
I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film. -- Eli Roth
Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original. -- William Friedkin
I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of . -- Steven Spielberg
Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. -- Victor Salva
That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life." "So?" "So I'm not a normal boy. -- Ally Carter
I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you. -- Tony Curran
I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence. -- Steven Spielberg
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. -- Pam Brown
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. -- Olive Schreiner
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. -- Peter Benchley
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. -- Rupert Holmes
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power. -- Jerry Saltz
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore. -- Jane Pauley
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. -- Nathan Myhrvold
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. -- Ann Patchett
In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. -- Tom Stoppard
Guys never looked at me. I always had crushes on older seniors who never looked at me. So, when I tell directors that I wanna play that girl who gets rejected, they're like, 'Why?' I tell them it's because I relate to that girl much more than being the girl who makes jaws drop when she walks into a room. -- Katrina Kaif
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.' -- Peter Benchley
When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe six people in there when I started, and when I finished there was about 30 people, all standing around with their jaws dropped in complete silence. I said, 'Okay, I think this song has some power to it.' So coffee shops work for me. -- Jason Mraz
With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal. -- Christopher Paolini
We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. -- Jim Butcher
We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. -- Cressida Cowell
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. -- Emile M. Cioran
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. -- Bob Dylan
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils. -- Herman Melville
Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death. -- Juvenal
She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. -- Dashiell Hammett
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. -- Pyotr Kapitsa
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. -- Jose Marti
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. -- Kin Hubbard
We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. -- Marcus Aurelius
The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument. -- Ted Hughes
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist. -- Tom Robbins
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. -- Saadi
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! -- Mark Twain
When I said that Mercy stoodWithin the borders of the wood,I meant the lenient beast with clawsAnd bloody swift-dispatching jaws. -- Lawrence Spingarn
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will. -- John Donne
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws. -- Bruce Cockburn
Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! -- Lewis Carroll
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan. -- Stephen Jay Gould
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain. -- Ivan Stoikov
He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for this! -- Ilona Andrews
He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to kirrrl youraaalll for this! -- Ilona Andrews
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. -- Walt Whitman
Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win. -- Robert G. Allen
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. -- John Adams
The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent. -- Bob Hope
Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. -- Jim Butcher
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins -- Kurt Vonnegut
My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine. -- Jim Parrack
Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. -- Swami Vivekananda
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors. -- Peter Benchley
State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws. -- John Masefield
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again. -- David Fincher

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